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Products listed below are not sold by the Braxton County CVB. The Braxton County CVB is not responsible for the payment or delivery of items or services purchased through the listings below. However, many of these items are sold at the Flatwoods Monster Museum, visit soon at 208 Main Street, Sutton, WV 26601.

Want your very own piece of Flatwoods Monster history? The ceramic lantern pictured here, originally produced by the Braxton County Junior Chamber of Commerce in the early to mid 1960's as a fund raiser, is the oldest and longest produced novelty keepsake made to commemorate the events of September 12th, 1952. This ceramic lantern is still in production today. John Gibson, a local resident of Braxton County, has these unique items hand made in Marietta, Ohio by a ceramic artisan. Each piece is hand molded, fired, and painted. These great lanterns are available locally at the Flatwoods Monster Museum, Days Inn gift shop, Exxon convenience store, and Sister's Antique Mall. All four located within a couple miles of exits 62 and 67 of I-79. These lanterns are also available online HERE or via mail order, directly from John Gibson. John’s contact information is below. Contact John for whole pricing as well. Email: jegibson241@gmail.comPhone: 304-765-7075

Elk River Water Trail shirts that feature the Flatwoods Monster paddling a canoe can be purchased at the Flatwoods Monster Museum. These are USA made American Apparel shirts printed by East Coast Tees in Nitro, WV.

The Flatwoods Volunteer Fire Department now sells Monster themed t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts through their website. Shirt sales are a direct fundraiser for new equipment the volunteer fire department needs to better serve the greater Flatwoods area. Child and Adult sizes available. T-shirts available in both blue and grey. The Adult sized t-shirts are made from Delta brand USA made shirts. Find them by clicking the picture. $15 - T-shirts, $25 - Hoodie

Help support the gaming, horror, and sci-fi con, Bonus Round, based in Flatwoods WV, by buying their monster themed t-shirt from TeePublic.com. Design created by resident artist, Michael Mayne. CLICK HERE to buy this shirt!

The Flatwoods Monster Museum offers exclusive items only available there. For example, pictured above is Brian Borgman's mini figure he created for his game Kaiju Kaos. Brian discontinued this piece and sold his remaining stock to the museum. The museum also carries an exclusive t-shirt, shot glass, and bumper sticker.

On top of exclusive items, the museum also carries: Elk River Water Trail shirts that feature the Monster, Flatwoods Volunteer Fire Department shirts that feature the monster and helps to fund the fire department, And finally the original Flatwoods Monster novelty item; the Monster Lanterns.

Flatwoods Monster Museum

208 Main Street

Sutton, WV 26601

304-765-6533

Weekdays 9 AM to 5 PM

Weekends 10 AM to 4 PM

Typically closed on Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years, and Easter. However it;s never a bad idea to call and confirm specific times you would like to visit. The museum has a staff of two, so closing outside of normal hours of operation can happen from time to time.

Andy Finkle is andartist known for his love of cryptozoology, skeletons, vans, station wagons, and monsters. His work tends to reflect these interests in a big way. Finkle commonly using found items and house-hold craft supplies to more incredibly unique works of art. Find his current work HERE, which usually contains many Flatwoods Monster Themed pieces.

Argyle Goolsby is a horror rock artist who writes songs about horror films, the macabre, and things unknown. His song “The Being” is written about the Flatwoods Monster. Find it on his album Saturnalia of the Accursed. Click the image for his online store.

Frank C. Feschino, Jr., the authority of the “Braxton County Monster” incident has returned with an Updated and Expanded version of his 2012 book. His ongoing and diligent 21-year investigation into this case reveals an invasion of gigantic aliens that occurred over America on September 12, 1952. Feschino meticulously reconstructed a timeline of events and recreated the scenario of that terrifying day, which includes the “Flatwoods Monster” and “Frametown Monster” incidents, a massive wave of UFO sightings and crashes and the cover-up of a USAF jet fighter that disappeared that night. This book contains new documentation about the “Braxton County Monster” case and startling UFO events of that day and includes additional witness information, newly discovered sightings, crashes, landings and more. It contains more than 225 visuals, including new articles, photos, maps, graphics and illustrations, which credit Feschino as the world’s most thorough investigator of this UFO incident in history.

Check out this custom "Monster Buster" enamel pin offered by the Ghostbusters, West Virginia Division. They are $8 and all proceeds made by the Ghostbusters, West Virginia Division, goes to their yearly toy drive. Help support their efforts and show your "Monster pride" by picking up this pin today. Available HERE.

This book will let the reader find out basically what happened on a chilly September evening in 1952 at Flatwoods, West Virginia when two adults and several children ventured up a dark hillside in Braxton County in search of a possible downed aircraft only to encounter a UFO piloted by a scary monster. The reader will be there along with the author as they run to save their lives.